• ProBlogger’s 31 Days to a Better Blog series continues with 113 Must Read Blogging Tips, another collection of reader-submitted links.
• Looking to make some more $$$ off your blog? Take a look at 101 Ways to Monetize Your Website or Blog.
• Full feeds or summaries? Scores of readers will scream “FULL!”, but in the end it’s up to the blog owner. Take your pick, or offer both with the DualFeeds plugin for Wordpress.
• Want to start a forum? Mashable has yet another huge list that may help you there. 70+ Resources for Creating a Forum.
• Pro Blog Design has another design tip to offer. Make Sense of Your Blog With Proximity teaches you how to group blog elements in logical ways.
• StumbleUpon is a great way to pull traffic to your blog. Blog-op’s Be A Good Stumbler post covers the basics of StumbleUpon…and how not to annoy the heck out of the Stumblers.
• Comments… They allow your readers to respond to your posts and they make things harder for you as a webmaster. 5 Comment Management Plugins for Wordpress helps you manage your blog’s comments, and improve your users’ commenting experience.
• YouTube is now putting ads in their videos. Instead of annoying pre-roll ads, they’re using a less intrusive ad design that overlays the bottom of the video for 10 seconds, and allows you to close it immediately. Profits from the $20CPM (minimum) ads are split with the publishers. 70% of users leave when they see a pre-roll ad, so good move, Google.
• I didn’t know this, but some moron has been trying to patent virtual subdomains. You read that right. The technology that allows sites like Blogger, Newssvine, or any other site that gives you an URL like you.thesite.com to function. The Apache Web Server has been using this for years, and someone’s trying to patent it!
• Is your blog a mess? Maybe you should read 50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog. By the time you’re done, you’re blog should look like an iPod (clean, simplistic, uncluttered).
• Want more reader-submitted tips from ProBlogger? There’s more, all right.
• The Opera web browser has a cool feature called “Speed Dial”, which shows a grid of nine thumbnail buttons on every new tab. It allows you to jump to oft-used sites easily. Well, we Firefox users can do that now too with the Speed Dial Extension.
• Wordpress Cheat Sheets.

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